I can't believe it's actually something like twenty years ago that a reporter from a Sunday broadsheet came to spend a Sunday with the church I was working in. His task was to be present at all the services and write an account of what he saw.
At the evening service we were visited by a wonderful chap who had cone to lead a 'healing service'. During the evening he preached and then called out people who needed healing. The reporter came closer to the platform and his photographer snapped away whilt the preacher prayed for the sick. Up came a blind bloke (only person who sticks in my mind now) and he was asked if there was anything happening. He was told there was a sort of flashing lights going on, and so the chap prayed again and this time the response was that he thought he saw light. Again the chap prayed and by now the photographer was feet away. Upon being asked what was happening the blind person said they could see what looked like a funny face - turned out to be the photographer!
The man was able to read text before the service ended and yet the paper never carried that in their account of a Sunday with us!
Perhaps there was a different agenda?
Pax
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Imagine the crowds for the next healing service if they printed the story.
Wow....just wow!
The odd thing was that there was a photograph fron the healing service in the article, but no mention of it - they focussed on the main service. But it was positive.
Odder still, we were excited but not surprised, it was expected that God would heal.
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